Courant renewing attribution policy

HARTFORD -- The Hartford Courant says it is reviewing its policy for attributing news to other media sources after it was accused of stealing content from newspapers throughout Connecticut.

Jeffrey Levine, senior vice president and director of content for the newspaper, says the Courant dropped attribution or attributed to its own reporters stories that it published in its print editions. Levine says the newspaper took "immediate steps to correct this process."

The Journal Inquirer took its complaints about the policy public by publishing a story Saturday about the practice. The story said content had been copied from newspapers in Manchester, Bristol, New Britain, Torrington and Waterbury.